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One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be "happy" is not included in the plan of "Creation."

— Sigmund Freud Civilization and Its Discontents (1929)

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Moreover, the act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.

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No one who, like me, conjures up the most evil of those half-tamed demons that inhabit the human beast, and seeks to wrestle with them, can expect to come through the struggle unscathed.

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The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.

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One might compare the relation of the ego to the id with that between a rider and his horse.

New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-analysis (1933)

A religion, even if it calls itself a religion of love, must be hard and unloving to those who do not belong to it.

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